Wei Hong

Wei Hong (May 1954-) was the Governor of Sichuan from January 2013, succeeding Jiang Jufeng.

Biography
Wei Hong was born in May 1954 in Yinan County, Shandong, China. From 1970 to 1978 he served in the People's Liberation Army's railway corps and joined the Communist Party of China in 1973; from 1996 to 1998 he studied at the Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. From 2000 to 2002 he served as the Communist Party Chief of Ya'an Prefecture, rising to Executive Deputy Governor of Sichuan in May 2007 before succeeding Jiang Jufeng as governor in January 2013. However, on 15 January 2016 he was investigated for breaching Communist Party discipline by Wu Yuliang, and he spent time thinking and reflecting on his mistakes.